Office converts my tiff files to mdi, how to convert back?

[Eusebius]

I finally took the time to convert about three years worth of individual CD's
onto mysecondary hard drive. I then opened Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 to
view them. All the jpeg files I took with my camera came across fine. 100's
of slides I scanned and saved as tiff were converted, without my knowledge to
Microsoft Office Document Imaging Files, which Elements chokes on when I try
to import them from my drive to the organizer and viewer.
Please tell me I can fix this somehow so my tiffs don't become mdi's and I
can convert my useless mdi's to jpg's.

Thanks

 

[Bob I]

Um, recopy the tif files from the CD again but DON'T convert them to
MDI's this time. Office DOESN'T convert tif to jpg. Hope this clears up
the confusion.

 

[Eusebius]

Bob,

Thank you for responding. I thought the request was going to go unanswered.
When I copied the CD's to my new second storage drive, I did not convert
them. Office converted them for me without my knowledge or permission. Is
there a switch or setting somewhere in Office that needs to be changed to
prevent tiff files from automatically being converted to mdi?? Thanks again!

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Eusebius,

If you print to the MS Office Document Imager Writer
in Office 2003 or in MS Office Document Imaging/Scanning
have the options set to use a default of the MDI file
format (Tools=>Options=>Other-[Import]) MS Office document
imaging will save to the MDI format, but it has no capability
to autoconvert from TIFF files to MDI (which is a proprietary
TIFF derivative format).

MS Office Document Imaging may have taken over the file
association for TIFF files so that it's the default for
opening them but you can delete that association in
Windows Explorer options and then use another app you
want to have open the TIFF files.

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Bob,

Thank you for responding. I thought the request was going to go unanswered.
When I copied the CD's to my new second storage drive, I did not convert
them. Office converted them for me without my knowledge or permission. Is
there a switch or setting somewhere in Office that needs to be changed to
prevent tiff files from automatically being converted to mdi?? Thanks again! >>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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